Chapter 224: Praying Mantis Catches Cicada
It's just getting dark.
Although the field of vision has been largely restored, there is still some residual fog. This wet breath, mixed with the smell of beast tides unique to the forbidden land, made people feel a little uncomfortable. The cadets who returned to school yesterday should have just set off and are ready to go out hunting. But Hu Siming and Su Xishui had already trekked almost ten kilometers in the forbidden land.
The process of tracking is smoother than expected.
Although Han Feng and the others were several kilometers ahead, the fork in the road they took had no branch in itself. Moreover, anything can happen in a dangerous forbidden place. The four Han Feng, who were not too lucky, encountered a wave of retrospective demonic beasts and fought a big battle with them.
This dozen was delayed for several minutes.
The four elite seniors joined forces, and their strength was still very terrifying. If you have the heart, you can do it even if you leave all these monsters behind. But Han Feng and the others obviously didn't want to delay for too long, and left directly after defeating them, and did not chase them. Rao is so, these crucial minutes also gave Hu Siming and Su Xishui a chance to get closer.
"You say, will they intervene in the scouting guards?"
Hu Siming followed from afar, a little worried.
He and Su Xishui did not open the fog of trickery, although they deliberately avoided some high points that were suitable for eye positions at a glance, but if Han Feng and the others really intervened in the reconnaissance guards, they would still find the possibility of the two of them.
In contrast, Su Xishui was much calmer.
She thought about it for a while, and didn't say her own considerations directly, but asked rhetorically: "If you are Han Feng, will you intervene in this situation?"
What's this......
The duration of the Scout Ward is limited, and in general, it is only possible to make sight of the enemy if it is certain that they will pass by soon, so that they can control their tracks. Or when fighting the boss, you have to do your best, and you will also insert guards to prevent people from sneaking up. Han Feng is different, they are not sure when the opponent will arrive, and it is a waste to interject their eyes.
What's more, from the words of Han Feng's female team member, it can be inferred that the group of four should have been waiting here for more than a day. If you really plug in every day, how many scout guards will have to be wasted?
Even sophomores can't afford such a big consumption.
Thinking like this, Hu Siming put his mind at ease.
However, Han Feng is not completely unguarded. One of the elite students seems to have learned the skill of summoning fire demons. When his mana is fully restored, he will summon a fire demon. This will ensure that no magic is wasted, and it will allow the fire demon to hide behind the roadside. If there is a tracker, a little carelessness may be discovered by the Fire Demon.
In this case, Su Xishui's rich experience and combat experience are useful.
Having ventured to the New World and the Forbidden Lands many times, she is familiar with similar small techniques. Under her advice, Hu Siming gained a lot. The two waited patiently for a moment, and only caught up again after the summon's duration was over.
I have to say that the forbidden land is really very dangerous. Along the way, Han Feng and the others encountered Warcraft several times. For the most part, all four were able to fight. But there are also some top-notch fierce beasts that patrol back and forth in the forbidden land. Even the four sophomores didn't dare to provoke rashly, so they could only stop far away to avoid the edge for a while.
It's also a shame that they are in front of the road, otherwise Hu Siming and Su Xishui will be in much trouble.
After walking roughly two kilometers inside, Han Feng and the four of them stopped in front of a strange rocky hill. Within a kilometer of this area, there are no plants in the bare area, and you can see earthy yellow natural agate stones everywhere. On the side of the raised hills, there are also large open-pit veins, all of which are extremely pure metal deposits. On the stone wall of the ore vein, you can see holes drilled by some monster everywhere, and the largest one is even two or three meters wide.
When they arrived here, Han Feng and the four of them didn't dare to move forward, so they turned a hundred meters west and hid behind a huge rock nearby.
The shape and location of this huge rock are very tricky, and from the front, it is impossible to see that there are still people hiding behind it. However, from behind it, you can see the entire vein and attack any point at any time. Han Feng and the others probably had been exploring here for a long time in advance before they found such an excellent ambush spot.
Hu Siming and Su Xishui were not close, so they found a hidden place next to a strange rock and hid it.
Now that Han Feng and their opponent have not appeared, he doesn't dare to jump out rashly without figuring out the specific situation.
That's half a day!
On weekdays, we depart from the academy and arrive at the appropriate hunting area, and we can probably start work at *point. But today, Hu Siming and Su Xishui squatted here before seven o'clock, and waited until one o'clock at noon, and they didn't see any movement. If it weren't for Han Feng and they were still lying in ambush there, Hu Siming would have suspected that their opponent would not come.
The boring wait was boring, and the only thing to be thankful for was that the demonic beasts in the forbidden land did not dare to approach here, which saved Hu Siming and Su Xishui trouble. But there is often only one possibility in this situation, that is, the vicinity has been demarcated as its own territory by a powerful monster or monster race.
It didn't take long for him to see the monster race that inhabited the area.
It was a fiery red worker ant about a meter long, with a well-developed palate sharp enough to crush any ore, as well as a large amber compound eye. Although it is too far away to know the specific information, you can guess how powerful it is from the shimmering metallic shell and the size of the normal ant.
Moreover, ants are social creatures, and this huge fiery red worker ant is no exception.
A monster of this kind may be able to deal with, but what if it is a group? Think about the ant colonies I saw when I was a child, often hundreds or thousands, all of them are one meter long, I am afraid they can bite anyone to death!
The lone worker ant, who seemed to sense the breath of a human, walked around the neighborhood, but did not actually find it, and then returned. After that, there was also peace in the vicinity of the vein. If Hu Siming and Su Xishui didn't know the situation here, they wouldn't have imagined that there would be a terrible ant colony inside, and there were four sophomore elite-level seniors hidden behind the boulder not far away.
In order to ambush the unknown opponent, Han Feng and the others took great pains.
Slowly, another three hours passed.
Hu Siming and Su Xishui are really impatient to wait, this is the last day before the official start of the semester, shouldn't it be wasted like this? Seeing that the brightness of the zenith has dimmed a little, it will be evening in another hour or two, not to mention the two people behind Huang Que, even Han Feng, a group of praying mantises, are anxious to wait.
Hu Siming has only been waiting for a day, but they have been in ambush here for four whole days!!
I didn't do anything, I rushed here to squat at dawn, and specially prepared such and such props. As a result, after waiting for a day to disappear, and ambushing for another day, there was still no one. Seeing that the last evening was coming, the damned opponent never moved.
Could it be that the information they have painstakingly probed for is wrong?
Han Feng grimaced, looking out from the careful probe behind the boulder, and there was an unbearable anger in his heart. The two teammates behind him and the female student were already suspected of quarreling. Just when Han Feng couldn't help but lose his temper, his figure froze, and a happy color suddenly appeared on his face.
"Shh
"Shut up Lao Tzu, they're coming!"
This sentence had a great magical power, and it immediately quieted down the three sophomores, and their hearts swelled with restlessness, excitement, and eagerness.
At the same time, Hu Siming and Su Xishui also raised their spirits and looked at the students in the field.
This is a five-person team with a full formation, and like Han Feng and them, they are all sophomores. Judging from the configuration, it should be two melee and three ranged, and the specific strength is unknown. However, Han Feng and the four of them must be clear, these five people, their strength is only stronger than them. Especially the leading captain Zhong Ze, his strength is as high as elite lv8!
It is said that this well-known genius student has already scraped together enough ten soul stones needed for the first postgraduate entrance examination. As long as the level is raised to elite lv10 and the conditions are met, you can apply for the postgraduate entrance examination.
According to Han Feng's speculation, Zhong Ze is only a little bit of experience away from being upgraded to lv9. In case he kills the target this time, he gets the Book of Energy, and directly rises from lv9 to lv10, and then succeeds in the graduate school entrance examination......
Before he crossed that level, although Zhong Ze was lv8, he was not much stronger than him, a student who had just reached lv5. Even if you can't beat it, at least you have the power to fight. can let him step out of that level and become a hero, and the strength of the two is very different. Not to mention anything else, just the ordinary attack hitting the hero armor and innate weakening the damage by 50% gave Zhong Ze the strength to crush him.
Therefore, this step must not allow Zhong Ze to take it so lightly!
After all, from elite level lv9 to lv10, a lot of experience energy is required. Without the Book of Energy, it would be difficult to level up with ordinary hunting. Although it is only one level difference, it will take at least a few months. If Han Feng waits for an opportunity to obstruct him again during the period, it is not good that he can drag Zhong Ze for a semester.
It was with this consideration that Han Feng did not hesitate to spend four days ambushing Zhong Ze's team here.
Now, it's harvest time!
It can be seen that the five members of Zhong Ze's team have a very tacit understanding with each other. When he came in, he didn't say a word, and began to do his duty. Someone was in charge of clearing the field to prevent others from mixing in the predetermined battlefield, someone made eye positions at several key points so that others could be warned in advance when they approached, and someone else took out an unknown alchemy potion and scattered it in advance, presumably to be able to use it in the battle later.
At this time, the four of Han Feng were somewhat nervous, but they were not too worried.
The location where they were hiding, the four of them searched for a long time but did not see anything abnormal. It was the female student who climbed to the top of the vein at the risk of being discovered by the worker ants, and looked down from a high place before she accidentally discovered it. Zhong Ze's team cleared the field normally, and it shouldn't be able to do that Cheng dรน. What's more, if it really doesn't work, they can still open the fog of trickery, which is enough to drag on for this period of time.
"Captain, one qiฤ is normal!"
"Brother Zhong, it's OK on my side, all three eyes are done. โ
"Here, too, all the intermediate-level insect repellent agents are laid out to ensure that ordinary worker ants can't come up. โ
"The real eye is also in place!"
A series of messages fed back to Zhong Ze, making the steady man have a smile on his face.
"So, open the monster!"